John Zorn has been leading “Cobra,” one of his most famous improvisational “game piece” performances, for upwards of 40 years, and as part of his 70th birthday celebration at Knoxville’s Big Ears, he ...

Thirty years ago, John Zorn found a way to control chaos. In 1984, the celebrated jazz saxophonist and composer introduced the world to a new composition called “Cobra” at a performance at Roulette, ...

John Zorn turns 70 on September 3 and has been celebrating his milestone birthday all year with special shows and curated performances around the country. (We caught a few at Big Ears this spring.) He ...

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Back when he was writing for the New York Times, Alex Ross described John Zorn’s “Cobra” this way: “At once brilliant and smug, the work represents the best and the worst of the new-music movement as ...

John Zorn’s enduring and illustrious work Cobra, which was first performed at Roulette‘s Tribeca Location in 1984, is returning Dec. 15. The project is a musical game system that aims to create a ...

Amajor player in New York’s downtown music scene, John Zorn is a man of many musical interests. He runs a record company (Tzadik), leads a band (Masada), plays the saxophone, and — most importantly — ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Machine Project presented an improvisational music class throughout January that was based on experimental “game” by visionary jazz innovator (and antagonizer), John Zorn. Cobra, as Zorn named it in ...

A premiere by Portland composer David Schiff is an event, an occasion to hear the latest music from one of the country's singular voices. Schiff continues exploring the intersection of classical and ...